Chapter 1 Test

What approach is often used to understand what’s defined as deviant within a society?

• Criticism
• Symbolic interactionism
• Constructivism
• Antipositivism

Sociology is defined as the:

• Qualitative analysis of human phenomenon.
• Systematic study of society and social interaction.
• Quantitative analysis of social transgressions.
• Theoretical examination of life’s origins.

Which of the following men coined the term positivism, and is widely considered the father of sociology?

• Auguste Comte
• Karl Marx
• Max Weber
• Émile Durkheim

Please define C. Wright Mill’s sociological imagination.

• The theory that man evolved slowly over time.
• The process of analyzing human behavior based solely on statistics.
• A series of interviews asking subjects about their sleep habits and dreams.
• How individuals understand their own and others’ pasts in relation to history and social structure.

A hypothesis can be defined as:

• A way to explain different aspects of social interactions
• A testable proposition
• An attempt to explain large-scale relationships
• Philosophical and theoretical frameworks used within a discipline to formulate theories, generalizations, and the experiments performed in support of them

The process of simultaneously analyzing the behavior of individuals and the society that shapes that behavior is referred to as:

• Dynamic equilibrium
• Latent functions
• Dramaturgical analysis
• Figuration

A paradigm can be defined as:

• Philosophical and theoretical frameworks used within a discipline to formulate theories, generalizations, and the experiments performed in support of them.
• The social ties that bind a group of people together such as kinship, shared location, and religion
• The consequences of a social process that are sought or anticipated
• Social patterns that have undesirable consequences for the operation of society

Jeremy wrote an essay criticizing the college admissions process, arguing that heavy competition and limited educational resources make admission difficult for the average student. Which perspective would Jeremy’s argument fall under?

• Structural Functionalism
• Conflict Theory
• Symbolic Interactionism
• Behaviorism

Alona is examining the impact of the 2011 Penn State scandal on student morale and school spirit by distributing number-scaled surveys in her Introduction to Sociology class. Alona is employing a _____ research method.

• Qualitative
• Pathos
• Logos
• Quantitative

_____ believed that societies grew and changed as a result of the struggles of different social classes over the means of production and greatly favored ____.

• Durkheim; Communism
• Max Weber; Positivism
• Karl Marx; Communism
• Comte; Antipositivism